BELLS CORNERS UNITED CHURCH Have you noticed the well tended flower bed by the church driveway? 3955 Old Richmond Rd., Nepean, ON K2H 5C5 Thanks to the tireless work of Jean Brunton throughout the summer we now Tel: 613-820-8103 Fax: 613-820-5628 have a colourful flower bed to be proud of. Thanks also to Gerry and Nicole Website: www.bcuc.org Email: [email protected] who faithfully tend the courtyard garden and keep it looking well cared for! Facebook: @bellscornersunitedchurch Minister: Rev. Kim Vidal Ministry Candidate: Lorrie Lowes The Book Club will meet on Sept.18th at 1:30pm to discuss ‘The Alice Music Director: Abe TeGrotenhuis Network’ by Kate Quinn. More information, call Gerry 613 828 8482. Office Administrators: Nancy Meyers, Ellen Boynton Everyone welcome! Chair, Church Board: Jordan Berard Today’s bulletin covers have been generously donated ANNOUNCEMENTS: September 15, 2019 by Ron Knox Meetings This Week at the Church: in memory of his love, Eleanor. Welcome Back Potluck BBQ Lunch, 11:15 am TODAY after worship. All welcome! The UP Group will be starting the year by heading to the Richmond Fair Lectionary Group meets on Tuesday September 17, 10:30 am. Theme and after church on Sunday September 22nd. Rides, games and fair food!! If you Text: “Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch” (Acts 8: 26-39) know a youth who is interested in joining the UP Group please contact Alex Book Club meets Wednesday September 18, 1:30 pm & Kim Culley. Church Board meets Wednesday September 18, 7:00 pm Men’s Club meets for coffee on Thursday Sept 19, 10 am Mark Your Calendar! Want to hear about Rev. Kim’s sabbatical highlights? Progressive Learning Circle Event will be held Saturday September 21, 1-4 Join her and her family on Friday September 27, 6:30 pm in the Main Hall pm and Sunday September 22, 1-4 pm. for a Family Asian Dinner. Free will donations will be received to support both Mission &Service Fund and the BCUC Operating Fund. Get your tickets Camp Otterdale - September 7-8: Families, couples and individuals had a after the service or in the office until September 22. Tickets will help great time at Camp Otterdale. Many are asking if they can go for a longer determine numbers coming. We need volunteers to set up, clean up, dishes period next year. The food was delicious and in spite of cool weather several and prepare dessert and coffee. All Welcome! activities were enjoyed both inside and out. Many thanks to those who contributed financially to enable people from the September 29: Rory Gardiner will share with us his comedy/music show housing neighbourhoods to take part in this camping experience. Thanks ‘Tornado Troubles’. This will acknowledge one year later, the tornadoes that also to Camp Otterdale, Rev. Steve Zink and Lorrie Lowes who did all the devastated our communities in September 2018. Rory’s home in Arlington planning behind the scenes. Woods was heavily damaged. His humour, wit and musical talent combine to make this a fun Sunday Nite Lite evening for the wider community. REFUGE N.O.W. Dinner: A Refuge N.O.W. fundraising dinner will be held Tea/coffee at 6:30, show at 7:00 pm. Friday, September 27 at 6.30 for 7 p.m. at Julian of Norwich Anglican Church, 7 Rossland Avenue at Merivale Road. Tickets are $40 per person. Save the Date: The third annual Unity Dinner will be held at Jami Omar Vietnamese food will be served. There will be a silent auction. Please mosque on Saturday October 5 at 6:00pm. Tickets will go on sale this contact Bridget McNeill for tickets. Sunday at coffee time and in the office and are $20 for adults and $10 for children under 12. The meal will be catered. Helpers are needed to assist BCUC Choirs: Grace Notes rehearse Wednesday mornings, 9:30 am. with setup , clear up and dishwashing. If youth volunteer, their hours will be Choir practices Thursday evenings, 7:15 pm. Come along and join a choir! credited to them. Invite your friends and neighbours to join you. Thanks. Information: Abe - [email protected] Upcoming Worship Services: Creation Time in the Season of Pentecost David’s Flowers are here! Flower donations to date are Liturgical colour for this season is orange associated with enthusiasm, $1,918.45. This year’s revenue will go to the Mission & creativity, fruitfulness, endurance and strength as well as with sunrise and Service Fund of the United Church, so please drop by and sunset, fall and harvest, and the changing seasons, nature’s last burst of take home some of his beautiful flowers. colour before winter. Sept 22 – Creation Time 3/ Progressive Learning Circle Sunday Church Library: Are you seeking answers to some of your theological Guest Preacher: Rev. Dr. Cheri Di Novo questions? There are books in the church library to help. Look for ones with Sermon Focus: “The Queer Evangelist” (Acts 8:26-39, Matthew 19: 11-12) a neon green sticker on the spine. Sept 29 – Creation Time 4 Sermon Focus: ‘A Beggar’s Tale’ (Luke 16:19-31) Elections Is Recruiting (you must be 16+ years of age and October 6 - Creation Time 5/World Communion Sunday a Canadian Citizen) Apply Now. Find a variety of opportunities to participate Sermon Focus: “As Big as a Mustard Seed” (Luke 17: 5-10) in the federal election process at elections.ca/jobs. call 1-800-463-6868 or 1-866-256-2806 in the Nepean Riding Area UCW Fellowship Day will be held Monday September 23 at Shawville United Church. Lunch, at $10, must be ordered by September 16 Men’s Club Coffee Mornings: The BCUC Men’s Club will hold a morning by contacting Martha a 591-3694. Morning speaker will be John Reid of drop in for coffee on Thursday, September 19 from 10:00 until 11:30. Ottawa Genealogy Group speaking on DNA Family Research. Afternoon will Coffee, Tea and Tim Bits will be served. Bring a friend, neighbor and include Choir Director Cheryl Campbell leading in a sing-along of favourite conversation. All are welcome. hymns. Further details can be found on the UCW corridor bulletin board. It has been suggested that the Men’s Club have a coffee morning each Friday for those who wish. I am agreeable to give it a try on the condition The Progressive Learning Circle (PLC): A that some men agree to set up and make coffee on a scheduled basis, and ministry of Bells Corners United Church to clean up after. through the Worship/Christian Education Another Coffee morning is schedule for Monday October 1. Depending on Committee. feedback, we will hold Friday Morning coffee on a trial basis October 4, 11, From Charity to Social Action: Working Together to Create a Just Society. 18, and 25. Saturday and Sunday, September 21 and 22 in the afternoon from 1 to 4 pm Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo, Minister at Trinity St. Paul UC in Toronto, will give a Gift Card Program Coordinator Needed: For more than 10 years Alan keynote address on Saturday, followed by a Multifaith panel on Sunday Bentley faithfully coordinated the Loblaws gift card program, raising more afternoon where Rev. DiNovo will be joined by Imam Zijad Delic of the south than $50,000 over that time. Alan has retired and though Pierre Dugas has Nepean Muslim Community and Dr. Fran Klodawsky, Professor Emerita at graciously taken over on an interim basis, the church needs someone new Carleton University, former chair of Multifaith Housing and a member of to coordinate the program, if it is to continue. Gift cards are sold by the Temple Israel, to discuss the question of how Faith groups can have a caring Program Coordinator on Sunday mornings after the service and through the influence on social justice policy to lessen the need for charity. week by the staff in the office. Cards for several supermarkets are sold and Full information brochures and registration forms are on the table in the the program is well supported making it an easy fundraiser for BCUC. Please Narthex and in the office. BCUC members can take advantage of contact the office or speak to Pierre if you are interested in learning more the group rate of $50. Information: Registrar, David Stafford at 613-592- about this volunteer position. 0296 or [email protected]. Worship Service at Retirement Homes: Wednesday, Sept 25, 10 am – Harmer House

Ontario Basic Income Network (OBIN)will be holding an event to discuss “Why a Basic Income is Inevitable” on Wednesday October 2, 7:30 pm at Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St. If you would like a ride please sign up on the sheet opposite the office. Bert Donnelly is willing to offer rides. Details of the program are posted on the bulletin board.

Oberammergau 2020 – Early Bird Registration Extended to November 15, 2019! Come and travel with Rev. Kim for 14 days (July 31 – August 13, 2020) and experience the world-renowned Oberammergau Passion Play presented every 10 years while exploring Luther’s Trail in Germany. Tour includes visit to Frankfurt, Eisenach, Erfurt, Eisleben, Wittenberg, Berlin, Potsdam, Nuremberg, Augsburg and Munich. Included also is a two-day trip to Prague. Early bird discount of $300 applies until November 15, 2019. An information session regarding this trip will be held on Thursday October 24, 9:30 am in the Main Hall. To register or for info, speak with Rev. Kim.

Long Term Care Facility Residents Please keep the following people in your prayers Beth Begbie Thorncliffe Place, Nepean Ida Blackwell Carleton Lodge, Nepean Jean Burgess Peter Clark Centre, Nepean Arthur Buss Stillwater Creek, Nepean Lois Donaldson Starwood, Nepean Bill Dormer Saint-Vincent Hospital, Ottawa Colette Hale Lynwood Park, Nepean Marion Helgason Stillwater Creek, Nepean Joy Lecuyer Empress, Kanata Connie Londong Billings Lodge Doug MacKechnie St. Vincent’s, Ottawa Barbara McFall Lynwood Park Lodge, Nepean Gail Mutton West End Villa, Nepean Doreen Pope Granite Ridge, Stittsville Margaret Ritchie Retirement Community, Nepean Thelma Seguin Robertson House, Nepean Sherrill Shaver Garden Terrace, Kanata Eula Smith Bridlewood Trails, Kanata Bob Southern Glebe Centre, Ottawa Reta Stinson Medex Extendicare, Nepean Jim Stephenson Peter Clark Centre, Nepean